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 JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A freighter carrying more than 100 passengers and crew sank in bad weather Thursday off Indonesia's Sumatra island, and 73 people were rescued, officials said.
More than 40 were still missing in the accident, which occurred about 40 miles off the port of Sibolga on western Sumatra, naval spokesman Lt. Col. Jaka Sentosa told el-Shinta radio station.
He said the vessel sprang a leak in bad weather.
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